Rep. Mike Dudgeon (R-25) Biography

1 Rep. mike Dudgeon (R-25). Biography mike Dudgeon currently serves as the state Representative for District 25, which covers the southern part of forsyth County and the northern parts of Johns Creek in Fulton. He serves as Vice Chair of the Education Committee, Secretary of the Energy, Utilities, & Telecommunications Committee, and is on the Appropriations, Science & Technology, and Small Business committees. Prior to taking office at the state on January 10, 2011, he served from 2007-2010 on the forsyth County Board of Education. On the school board he was an advocate for high standards for the students, digital learning, fiscal discipline, and direct communication with the public. Representative Dudgeon has bachelors and masters degrees in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech, holds five patents, and has been in the technology business his entire career.

2 He helped build the Alpharetta based startup Radiant Systems in the 1990s and was part of the group that took the company public. In 2001 he founded Tier One, an engineering consulting business in forsyth County. Within a few years it was recognized as a leading provider of embedded systems projects in the Southeast. After selling his interest in Tier One, Representative Dudgeon and partners in 2007 founded Qualia Labs to perform research into new computer architectures and artificial intelligence. In 2009 he joined Alpharetta based video game startup Hi-Rez Studios where he currently serves as Chief Technology Officer. Representative Dudgeon has a passion for youth and public service and is very active in the community. He is an usher, youth Sunday school teacher, lay leader, and past chair of the church council at Johns Creek United Methodist.

3 For 20 years he refereed high school basketball and football across north Georgia and worked the GHSA state tournament in 2007. Representative Dudgeon is very active in leadership of the Boy Scouts. He is past chair of Cub Scout Pack 3143 and currently serves as Assistant Scoutmaster for Troop 143 in Johns Creek. He has led five different 10 day high adventure trips of high school aged scouts on backpacking and canoeing trips at the Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico and Northern Tier base in Ely, Representative Dudgeon was the longtime president of the Kappa Sigma House Corporation at Georgia Tech where he helped launch efforts to rebuild the aging fraternity house. mike and his wife, Lori, have three boys ages 19, 17, and 15 and lives in southern forsyth county.